@Troggy: But that thread, like many others is in danger of moderator intervention. Answers have already been locked. Apparently certain moderators don't appreciate the wiki portion of this site.
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GEOCHETJan 25 '10 at 15:51

Every time a new meme is added to that thread, a pony dies.
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Shog9♦Jan 25 '10 at 18:00

@Changing: Adding to the name change meme answer won't kill anyone either, but you see how that went.
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GEOCHETJan 25 '10 at 18:22

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@Rich - That's because people got tired of it getting bumped. Which, while I disagree, I can understand.
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Super Long Names are HilariousJan 25 '10 at 18:32

@Changing: That is not an acceptable reason for a mod to lock something.
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GEOCHETJan 26 '10 at 0:55

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@Rich - To quote myself, "Which, while I disagree, I can understand." You're trying to pick a fight with someone who's on your side here.
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Super Long Names are HilariousJan 26 '10 at 1:06

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@Rich - That's baloney. Irrational racism and murder isn't understandable, being annoyed by popular things is. Comparing the two is ridiculous. Abusing power to conduct genocide is completely unrelated to abusing power to lock a forum thread.
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Super Long Names are HilariousJan 26 '10 at 19:41

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That started with the user Olafur Waage who lives in Iceland. I believe it started with someone asking a Friday type of fun question and it started as a comment, then turned into a tag. And then people started slapping it on more fun meta questions.

Friday is kind of the official "let a few fun questions survive on meta" relaxed day. I believe someone asked a fun type of question and it was not Friday and someone's defense was it is always Friday in Iceland!

The "Friday answer" meme is known in Iceland from the national knowledge base "Vísindavefurinn" (visindavefur.hi.is) sort of a Q&A site with answers from professors and students from local Universities and institutions. They give a silly question with a silly answer, quite fun most of the time.
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ojsSep 5 '14 at 11:30